105 Face to face
After the introduction, there was naturally a lively chat, which became a fixed pattern, and finally, under the leadership of the duke, the group left the banquet hall and entered a meeting room. After enjoying the excellent coffee served by the butler of the Duke's Palace, I chatted casually for a few words, and then finally got to the point.
Li Feng knows very well that for the Vickers Group, it is also a matter of selling at a good price, so Li Feng is more concerned about the opponent of Volkswagen, and similarly, for this chairman, when he hears his name, Li Feng knows that this is the real person who controls the family behind Volkswagen.
That's right, it is the members of the Porsche-Piëch family, the car strongmen of this generation, the generation of capable people who lead the public to glory.
In this way, the family members who control the shareholders are also shrewd management talents, but such opponents are the most difficult to deal with, people are not bad for money and can call the shots, and such people as Hemudpunk are, to be honest, actually just a high-level wage earner, and many things cannot be mastered.
According to the information collected by Li Feng, the holding company behind Volkswagen is Porsche-Piëch Holding Company, and this holding company is a family business established by the two families of Porsche and Piëch. The Porsche family holds almost two-thirds of the shares.
The two families are still early marriage families, and the relationship is very good, therefore, many people directly say that the two families are regarded as one family, that is, known as the 'Porsche-Piëch' family, the two families control more than half of the shares of the Volkswagen Group, a global car company, just think about its strength, but unfortunately, the family members have not seen it on the Forbes rich list at all, they are too good at hiding, and they are one of the most powerful families in the German and even global automotive industry.
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"Welcome, it's a pleasure to ......"
It was like a fixed pattern, first the Duke welcomed him as the master, and then Sir Vickers gave an explanation as the representative of the Vickers Group, and after a lot of nonsense, it was finally Rolls-Royce.
"Sir, I don't think we need to say anything about our sincerity, obviously, whether it's BMW or Volkswagen or I, St. John Lee, we all come with sincerity, otherwise we wouldn't have come to London to enjoy this rainy weather.
Now, I would like to ask Sir Vickers and Chairman Morris to explain the situation, according to my investigation, the name and trademark rights of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars now belong to Rolls-Royce Aerodynamics, and Rolls-Royce Dynamics now seems to be controlled by BMW, is that so?"
When Li Feng raised his 'doubts', the scene was quiet for a while, but all parties reacted differently.
Li Feng and BMW knew it, and Mike John had already contacted them, while the British people obviously didn't expect Li Feng to directly raise this issue here, and in the end it was the public that reacted the most.
Volkswagen really didn't know that the trademark rights of the Rolls-Royce name were not in the hands of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, otherwise they would not have waited until the acquisition in their previous life, and they would eventually be blackmailed by BMW.
Later, BMW only spent tens of millions of dollars to say that Rolls-Royce was in the bag, and Volkswagen really lost a lot. Therefore, after hearing Li Feng's questioning, the public suddenly felt that they had been deceived.
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At this time, Ferdinand Piëch had put away all his smiles, and looked at the representatives of the British government, the Vickers Group, the chairman of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars and others with a dark face, obviously waiting for an answer.
You must know that Volkswagen's offer before was far more than BMW's offer, more than half, before I wondered why BMW's offer was so low, it turned out that there was this layer of relationship, if he did not know the situation and directly acquired, it would be really a big mistake, at this time Piëch thought a little angry.
In the same way, Piëch thought to himself that the people who had gone back to collect information on Rolls-Royce had missed such an important matter.
Well, in fact, you can't blame the public, it can only be said that the public participated in too hastily, and a lot of information was too late to collect, and it was pitted by the Vickers Group.
Facing Li Feng and BMW with a strange smile, as well as Piëch's angry gaze, Sir Vickers, who was still talking endlessly, suddenly became dumb.
Naturally, these Brits are also thinking in their hearts, which bastard leaked this secret, which was set up in order to control the car company when Rolls-Royce was divided into two, and now it is really a problem, after all, Rolls-Royce Power is now controlled by BMW.
Speaking of which, it's still to blame the Rolls-Royce company for this bunch of waste, a good Rolls-Royce is running like this, so that the power company has long been controlled by BMW, and now the car company is about to be acquired, this Rolls-Royce now has nothing to do with our British Empire at all, several British bigwigs thought with ugly faces.
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"Well, the right to use the name of Rolls-Royce is indeed in the hands of Rolls-Royce Dynamics, that is to say, in the hands of BMW, but I think you should all know this, after all, if you are going to buy the company, the necessary company business information will still be collected, right?"
"I'm sorry, Sir Vickers, I think we will reconsider whether our previous offer is reasonable, and I will report the situation to the Board of Directors, and perhaps a new one will follow. Piëch blushed and replied directly.
At this time, the leading figure of the German public was really angry in his heart, and he couldn't help but be angry. For the acquisition of Rolls-Royce, Piëch was also on the board of directors of the company to fight for it, if the acquisition is successful, and in the end it is revealed that the name of Rolls-Royce cannot be used, then his own wisdom is really too late.
At this time, Piëch also understood why according to the collected intelligence analysis showed that BMW's offer would be so low, obviously, people had the initiative early, and they could even say that they were waiting to jump after digging a pit.
Even if the acquisition is successful, you still have to negotiate with others, or even can only be slaughtered, Volkswagen and BMW are facing fierce competition in the global market, and they are one of the most important competitors, and the grievances at that time can be imagined.
In the face of Piëch's public slap in the face, Vickers and the rest of the crowd looked at each other and were speechless for a while, and they could only pinch their noses and admit it. Obviously, a bunch of John bulls are not in a good mood to reply to others, and they have done something wrong and concealed this key information.
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Of course, he didn't have the initial good impression of Li Feng, the spoiler. In this regard, Li Feng doesn't mind at all, it doesn't matter if he doesn't have a good feeling, as long as he can achieve his goal, the declining and arrogant British Empire really has nothing to make Li Feng feel good.
In tonight's play, in Li Feng's view, Vickers Group wants to take advantage of the fisherman, so that the three acquisition representatives will appear together to compete for Rolls-Royce, and they will ultimately benefit, which is also one of the reasons why Li Feng explained the situation.
Another is that Li Feng said this, he can return Volkswagen to reason from that crazy offer, even if Volkswagen offers again next time, it will definitely not be as high as it is now, which virtually increases the possibility of his acquisition a lot.
Before Volkswagen quoted nearly 800 million US dollars, Volkswagen's annual sales of hundreds of billions of dollars, but it doesn't matter, the current Li Feng can not toss with others, you must know that BMW's quotation is only about 500 million US dollars.
In fact, Li Feng only quoted 600 million US dollars before, which is already worthy of today's Rolls-Royce situation, even if there is no Rolls-Royce, isn't there still a Bentley. At first, Vickers was about to agree, but in the end, the news came out that the intervention of BMW and Volkswagen caused Li Feng's acquisition to be shelved, so Li Feng did not have a good impression of Vickers, a group of Brits.
As for saying that because of this, it won't be sold to Li Feng, there's no such thing at all, no one will get along with the money, isn't it, as long as the money is in place, nothing is non-negotiable, and these Brits still treat you as God. But that's it for tonight's party, and now it's just a matter of having fun.